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| feral trade Cube-Cola |
| Open source cola, wildcrafted in Bristol UK since 2004, a production process merging domestic and scientific methodology. 1x (LG) 56ml cola concentrate yields approximately 14L Cube-Cola.
http://cube-cola.org.
ferally traded since: 15/06/06.
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| | FER-1615 | | Cube Microplex Bristol, UK to Environmental Health Clinic New York, USA | | dispatched 02/05/11 delivered 02/05/11 |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Cube Microplex-Feral Trade-Bristol bus station-London Heathrow Airport-Newark Liberty airport-New York Penn Station-1 Washington Sq Village--Environmental Health Clinic |
| Cube-Cola Cube Microplex to Environmental Health Clinic
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| FER-1615 import purchase & freight
| | 1 x Cube-Cola bottle | gross | per bottle |
| | Courier Report FER-1615 DISPATCHED: 02/05/11 DELIVERED: 02/05/11 kate rich Woke at 530 AM to radio report of Osama Bin Laden's death by US forces, accompanyied by audio of crowds outside the Whitehouse chanting U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! great. Bristol to Heathrow on the overkill early 645AM bus. Hung out at the Terminal 4 Cafe Nero with Osama news on TV. Dull flight with more degraded than usual food, watched Bourne Supremacy to add paranoia. After a 3PM landing at Newark Liberty airport, immigration took extra time asking about the 3 previous visits to Iran visible in my passport and despite answers I was escorted to secondary processing. Secondary is in a large hall adjacent to the baggage retrieval area where sparse customers occupy the seating rows and the many uniformed and armed officials float dreamily around the desks pausing regularly to chat and joke with each other, I have rarely if ever seen American workers move so slowly. Laser printed signs describe the area as Soft Secondary. Between the 3rd and 4th official poring through my 2 passports and asking the same questions particularly who I am visiting in the USA and what is relationship to them, I was re-escorted to the baggage carousel to retrieve my now long-arrived small checked bag, containing amongst other things 2 bottles of cube-cola concentrate. The 4th official made it clear that she was the last person I would see there today and it was entirely up to her whether I would enter the US or not. She seemed genuinely surprised to hear that tourism exists in Iran. She questioned why I was travelling with swimming goggles and how I had injured my feet, at points it felt almost like a normal conversation, at the same time she was happy to slice into my box of tea, a gift for Natalie, with her knife. The cola concentrate remained undisturbed. After transcribing the names and professions of who I was to be visiting, effectively my core social trade network in the USA (Natalie Jeremijenko art professor NYC; Jenna Didier water feature engineer and experimental architecture space director LA; Amy Balkin land and smog artist San Francisco) she eventually released me from limbo into the by comparison free and solid ground of the arrivals concourse. Air train to Penn Station, crossing commuter stampede to subway A to west 4th street were uneventful with no particular sign of Osama-killing elation on the streets. Arrived about 7PM at Washington Square village where bags and self were warehoused.
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| freight and handling Cube-Cola to Environmental Health Clinic sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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